Coffee House

For the icon project, we were assigned into groups with our row. I took on the task of the coffee house. We needed to create it as a vector graphic so it can scale with no problem.

I found this to be one of the more interesting projects because we had to only use vector lines. The hardest part of this was the liquid in the cup. Trying to create that was a hard task. The actual cup was pretty easy to create. I just used the curved line tool and started from the top, and curved to the bottom.

Originally, I was going to have the coffee in a house, but I decided to make the coffee the more dominant object. The vector graphic is placed into a 500x500 pixel square.

Child Rights

For this I wanted to show Child Labor laws. I cut the boy out using photoshop. For the rest I used indesign and illustrator. I had trouble for a little while and ended up using illustrator for the gradient background, and indesign to put it all together. Indesign seemed very awkward for me to use because using the background for the gradient wouldn’t work like it did in illustrator. Also it was easier to do other things in illustrator like rotate objects. I would have used illustrator for all of it, but when I would export it as a jpeg, it would never come out the way I would want it.

Self Portrait Collage

For this I took a picture of myself, and made an outline. I then took it into a new document, made a background and put the pictures in the outline. The pictures are of me, my girlfriend, family, and some good friends. Placement of the pictures took somewhat longer then expected, but I had the most trouble with finding a suitable background. I created a clipping mask to have the outline filled with pictures.

Bouncing Ball

To show movement, I wanted to show a ball bouncing around in a confined rectangle. To represent the movement, I added three lines to the back of each ball. About the color, I made three different shades of red in some of the boxes, and the color of the balls contrast with the red (three do this, one does not).